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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this point Shaw is explicit. In his preface to the play, he calls Heartbreak House "cultured, leisured Europe before the war." Elsewhere he dodges the issue of what it all means: "How should I know? I am only the author." Shaw subtitled the play "A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes" as homage to Anton Chekhov, whose Three Sisters appeared earlier this semester at the Loeb. The imprint of Chekhov's style is apparent in Shaw's reliance on dialogue, rather than physical action or plot development, to express characterization and the atmosphere of pre-war England...
...subject of President Carter Weicker remarked, "His rhetoric is admirable, his heart is in the right place, but he doesn't know...
Three Days of the Condor. Always use the back door. You never know, you may slip out for lunch one minute and return the next, pastrami and mustard in hand to find all your office mates spread across their desks, covered with blood. Meek and mild-mannered Robert Redford, who translates Russian novels for U.S. intelligence, came home to just such a spread, and leaving lunch aside, stepped into a phone booth and became "The Condor." The transformation is not complete--Redford is rather mild-mannered as a hero, too. When he calls into Central, he becomes a critical...
Written late in Shaw's career, Heartbreak House unfolds against the backdrop of World War 1. It opens almost like an Agatha Christie murder mystery: a young girl, accompanied her finance and father, comes to a strange country house, invited by a woman she doesn't know all that well. The house is bulging with a variety of guests, to who terms like "wacky" and "zany" cannot be too strongly applied. A burglar enters the premises, as does the long-lost daughter of one of the guests. Relationships among the characters are tangled--nobody is quite what he appears...
...screening of rare films that chronicle the history of jazz dance. The climax of the week-long event is a performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago at the Church of the Covenant (67 Newbury street) on Friday, May 4th at 8:30 p.m. "If you don't know the Art Ensemble, I can't possibly describe them," Louis Armstrong' said about "jazz", but then the Art Ensemble represents jazz in its most courageous and highly distilled form. Their playing reflects rigorous discipline in a context of almost total improvisational freedom, and the Art Ensemble's physical appearance--facepaint...